Kimono Pictures

In Japan, when the girls are three and seven years old, and when the boys are three and five years old, they get kimono pictures done. Sammie, Sakura and Lily are all seven in the coming year, so they wanted to get the pictures done. Elliott is five and Danny is three so they also had them done. Because they were doing the pictures, Kaori also invited Paige and I to have Autumn and Annmarie do it, even though they aren't quite the right age. It was fun to watch them get all dolled up and they sure turned heads walking around the Dallas temple grounds in their kimonos.

Thanksgiving and Big Brothers

I caught the picture of Westley reading to Annmarie and Nathan today while I was making dozens of rolls for Thanksgiving.  I made twelve dozen rolls.  Whenever I make rolls for just my family, I make 4 dozen and usually have about a dozen left.  Since Thanksgiving is everyone except for Jordan's kids, I figured I would need to triple it.  And having leftover rolls is always good. 

Broken Finger

Travis broke his finger.  He and Corey were goofing around after school on Friday, playing football.  Apparently, Travis caught it wrong and hurt his finger.  We both thought it was jammed.  But then, on Monday, he was still complaining about it hurting.  It was really swollen and he couldn't move it.  So I decided to spend $20 on a copay and take him to the children's urgent care Monday night.  We came to find out that it was a broken finger, broken near the first knuckle.  If he didn't get it taken care of, it could have twisted and caused irreparable damage.  Thankfully, we got it X-rayed at the urgent care and then took him to a pediatric orthopedist the next day, who casted it.  He has to have his cast on for one month. 

Westley's First Solo Flight and Honor Roll

Westley got to fly out to California to visit Aunt Jamie and Nana over the weekend before Thanksgiving.  I waited at the airport with him and made sure he got on the right flight.  He was met at the airport in California by Nana and Jamie. He had a great time and I'm glad he was able to go.  While he was gone, we came home from being out to this sign in our front yard.  He made the honor roll!  I'm not sure how that happened, but still, it's great to see!

Hot Chocolate at In-N-Out!

Whenever we go to In-N-Out, our kids march to the doors and through them like they own the place.  And this week, In-N-Out started serving hot chocolate.  It's delicious!  Oh, and the hand is just because I love toddler hands and he had it on the table and was holding it still for a minute.

Another Paint Night

I saw an ad for one of those painting places for this painting of the nativity.  I decided suddenly that I really wanted to do it, so I asked Eve if she would come with me.  Then I realized that it would cost $55, and I thought we could probably paint it ourselves and spend less than that on supplies.  So we bought some canvases and some paint and we worked together to paint it at her house.  It was a fun girls' night and we enjoyed painting together. 

Crayon Dump

Every year when I purchase supplies for preschool, I purchase extra crayons to disperse throughout the year.  I had all of these crayons in one of my drawers, stowed away to pull out when somebody's crayons were wearing out.  I was planning on passing out a new box right before Christmas.  Well, Nathan found the crayons when I was busy teaching piano lessons this week and now all of the new crayons have been dumped on the floor and their boxes torn up.  What a pain!